J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Thinking
  • Rock
  • Finish

• I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Media
  • Digital

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Romantic
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Only
  • Routine

• My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Education

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • You
  • Thought
  • Original

• I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Different
  • Game
  • Football

• I don't intend to die.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Die
  • Intend

• A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Son

• The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Red

• Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Men
  • Behavior
  • Feminism

• Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at least a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Dream
  • Satisfaction
  • Blessings

• When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Reality
  • Brain
  • Emotional

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Joy
  • Story
  • Resurrection